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Milliken: The Man

A legacy for Spartanburg, and it keeps on giving

DECEMBER 9, 2009 3:01 p.m. Comments (3)

Roger Milliken once told Spartanburg Mayor Bill Barnet about a garden he visited in England.

Its curator told him the man who planted the garden never got to see the full magnitude of what he had created.

Many say the same about Milliken, a private man who reinvented his family business into what is regarded as the nation’s best-run textile and chemical company, who is credited for the rebirth of the Republican Party in what had been a staunchly Democratic state and whose influence can be seen in almost every square foot of the Wofford College campus. Continue reading...

Small businesses get help

$2 million to be available this quarter

JANUARY 21, 2010 10:28 a.m. Comments (0)

Entering the third year of being battered by the recession, The South Financial Group took steps to build a neglected business segment.

The company has created a 19-person department to become a bigger player in Small Business Administration loan programs in the Carolinas and Florida. Continue reading...

Going with the grain

Residents say naming the western end of Spartanburg's downtown the "grain district" will spur further development

JANUARY 23, 2010 10:36 a.m. Comments (0)

Tony Forest didn’t have to worry much about where his customers were going to park when he opened Carriage House Wines on West Main Street a little more than four years ago.

Except for Sonny’s Brick Oven Pizza, there weren’t any other businesses. Continue reading...

SPARTA gets review

Spartanburg bus rider audit under way

JANUARY 21, 2010 10:53 a.m. Comments (0)

Aboard a minibus on the North Church Street route 10 riders – men and women, most of them middle-aged or older – turned to 11, 12, 15 and then a precarious 19 before folks started getting off at the Spartanburg Regional Hospital stop.

Initially silent, conversation turned to the crowded conditions before long. Continue reading...

Free medicine

Spartanburg County's employee clinic gets high marks from patients

FEBRUARY 18, 2010 9:58 a.m. Comments (0)

Tony Bell was visiting the clinic he helped set up for Spartanburg County employees recently, and the clinic’s advising physician happened to be there.

“My shoulder has been bothering me forever and a day,” said Bell, sporting a blue canvas arm sling late last week. “He said, ‘Why don’t you get an MRI?’ I hadn’t gotten back to my office before they were calling me to set it up.” Continue reading...

The other Greenville

Never heard of the Greenline-Spartanburg community? That’s their problem.

MARCH 14, 2010 11:54 a.m. Comments (0)

Neighborhood activists are outraged it took the city of Greenville 465 days to finish work on the Spartanburg Street bridge where a young woman died in November of 2008 after her car plunged into Richland Creek.

Shedreaka Davis was injured on Nov. 12, 2008, and died five days later. The city’s slow response is seen as typical of the indifference toward the Greenline – Spartanburg area by some in the community.

City Manager Jim Bourey said city crews addressed safety issues with the bridge within days of the accident and that the final refurbishment of the structure took longer than it should have because the city wanted to do the job right. Continue reading...

Spartanburg junior high will close

Whitlock Junior High had been under federal, state scrutiny to turn around student achievement

APRIL 7, 2010 3:50 p.m. Comments (0)

Whitlock Junior High will be shutting down after classes wrap up May 28.

The announcement, the first concrete step in a larger proposed restructuring of the district, came Wednesday morning in a briefing to members of the media and the district’s principals. A general announcement to the public was embargoed until 4 p.m. today after school personnel could be notified. Continue reading...

Attorney says District 7 broke law with disclosure delay

APRIL 7, 2010 4:25 p.m. Comments (0)

The Spartanburg District 7 Board of Trustees took a major vote Tuesday night.

But the implications of that vote – which were to close Whitlock Junior High and the Madden Center – were unknown to the public until district personnel explained it in a closed-door media briefing the following morning. Continue reading...

The gender difference

MAY 20, 2010 9:47 a.m. Comments (0)

After 22 years in education, Tammy Greer has seen all sorts of change, including one she never envisioned would be so popular: single-gender classrooms.

“I had never even heard of it when I started,” the Boiling Springs Intermediate principal said. Continue reading...

The ‘Southwest Effect’

Entry of airline into GSP market should lower fares, boost options

MAY 21, 2010 9:13 a.m. Comments (0)

Airfares plummeted at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last year.

The average round-trip ticket price flying out of the Twin Cities was $321.54 during the third quarter of 2009, nearly $151 less than the year before. Continue reading...

Spartanburg signs LGBT proclamation

Some council members, residents say he shouldn't have done it

JUNE 3, 2010 9:15 a.m. Comments (2)

Civil rights are not just a racial issue, Spartanburg Mayor Junie White said.

That why White signed a proclamation making June 19 Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Day. Continue reading...

Mayfair has lofty goals

JUNE 14, 2010 9:13 a.m. Comments (0)

The tenants at Mayfair Lofts generally aren’t locals but they have helped make the mill restoration project one of Spartanburg County’s success stories, said Pace Burt of Burt Development.

Perched alongside a major rail line on the edge of the City of Spartanburg, Mayfair Lofts is sandwiched between major shopping, and business opportunities as well as having easy access to colleges and the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg. Continue reading...

Facebook + Teachers = privacy questions

JULY 16, 2010 5:00 a.m. Comments (0)

Tagging, poking and friending may be fine on Facebook, but private information from school district employees' social web pages can end up in the district e-mail system.

Spartanburg District Five Director of Technology Tom Taylor said signing up for sites like Facebook with a work e-mail is opening the door for private information to be seen. Continue reading...

40 cold cases in Spartanburg County

Investigators say time is the trouble

JULY 21, 2010 6:34 a.m. Comments (0)

Crystal Bradshaw was getting her life back together.

The 28-year-old mother had been separated from her husband for several months and had recently purchased a home on Northbrook Street off Highway 9 in Boiling Springs. Continue reading...

How First National Bank of the South failed

JULY 21, 2010 6:58 a.m. Comments (0)

Business was booming for First National Bank of the South in 2007, just eight years into its founding with ambition to grow from one Spartanburg office into a statewide force in banking.

That ambition crashed last Friday when the FDIC put the bank into receivership, closed its doors and sold it to a private equity firm created to scoop up failed banks.

First National reopened as business as usual Monday under the new owners. Continue reading...

GSP plans expansion, renovations

Infrastructure upgrades to help reduce operational costs

JULY 22, 2010 7:11 a.m. Comments (0)

Work could begin as early as late spring or early summer 2011 on an $80 million to $100 million renovation and expansion of the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, officials said this week.

As plans stand now phase one of the work could be done by sometime in 2012. Continue reading...

When passion meets purpose

AUGUST 17, 2010 7:29 a.m. Comments (0)

District 7 Superintendent Russell Booker’s passion and devotion got him selected for the next Liberty Fellowship class; those are some of the same traits that saw him tapped for the top schools slot in the city of Spartanburg.

At 40, Booker is a man who loves his job, his family and the community he’s been called to serve. He is an intense man with kind eyes that urge people to talk about themselves and their dreams.

His favorite quote “Relationships are all there is,” is by Margaret Wheatley and sums up his philosophy of schools administration and life. Continue reading...

AIR PLANS

Spartanburg’s largest property prepares for its next phase

AUGUST 18, 2010 8:00 a.m. Comments (0)

A $2.5 million renovation and upgrade project at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport is the first phase of a project that would see the facility increase its economic impact on the area from $10 million to more than $30 million.

“It’s the kind of thing that is going to require long-term commitment from the city,” said Dick Lewis, director of aviation for the Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport, a city-run facility located on the outskirts of Charlotte. Continue reading...

City will pay millions for landfill cap

AUGUST 17, 2010 6:37 a.m. Comments (0)

The city of Spartanburg is on the hook to pay all of the estimated $5.5 million to $6 million that it will cost to put an earthen cap on the old Arkwright landfill, city officials have confirmed.

Costs could be higher, said City Manager Ed Memmott, but are not expected to exceed the high end of estimates. Continue reading...

County plays clean up

Clerk of Court has thousands in unclaimed child support

AUGUST 17, 2010 7:38 a.m. Comments (0)

A steady stream of phone calls have been flowing into the Spartanburg County Clerk of Court’s office since the announcement that $900,000 in unpaid child support and restitution payments have been discovered languishing in county accounts.

Hope Blackley, the recently appointed clerk of court, said the backlog of funds dates from 1980. Some of the amounts are small, $2 or $3, and others (mostly restitution payments), run into thousands of dollars. Continue reading...

Timken scores big with bearings

Upstate plant project is part of $26-million contract

AUGUST 17, 2010 7:43 a.m. Comments (0)

Production has started at Timken’s Tyger River plant in Union County on massive bearings for use in wind turbines for China’s Goldwind Science and Technology Company, the fifth largest wind power maker in the world, as part of a $26 million contract.

Under the terms of the contract Timken provides engineering, advanced bearings, and condition monitoring equipment for Goldwind, said Lorrie Paul Crum, spokeswoman for Timken, a Ohio-based company that has operations in 27 countries and $3.1 billion in sales in 2009. Continue reading...

Coffee, and so much more

Hub City Bookshop brings literary world together

AUGUST 17, 2010 7:59 a.m. Comments (0)

Little River Roasting Co. has been in Spartanburg since 2002 but it wasn’t until the The Coffee Bar opened in the historic Masonic Temple downtown that the company had a retail presence.

The Coffee Bar and Cakehead Bakery opened up shop in the building with the Hub City Bookshop. Continue reading...

City of Spartanburg will pay millions for landfill cap

AUGUST 26, 2010 8:14 a.m. Comments (0)

The city of Spartanburg is on the hook to pay all of the estimated $5.5 million to $6 million that it will cost to put an earthen cap on the old Arkwright landfill, city officials have confirmed.

Costs could be higher, said City Manager Ed Memmott, but are not expected to exceed the high end of estimates. Continue reading...

He’s the man in the mirror

AUGUST 26, 2010 7:37 a.m. Comments (0)

For Christopher Adam Turner, self-portraits are a form of therapy.

Some people may talk to friends about issues going on in their lives but Turner picks up a paint brush. Continue reading...

Sport aircraft grow in popularity here

AUGUST 26, 2010 9:10 a.m. Comments (0)

The boom in light sport aircraft will help fuel growth at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport, said Darwin Simpson, airport manager.

Light sport aircraft are a Federal Aviation Administration approved class of planes that require less training (a FAA Sport Pilot certificate and a driver’s license is all that’s needed to fly) and medical certification than general aviation aircraft, yet have adequate speed and range to be useful beyond simply being fun to fly. Continue reading...

Parking in the City of Spartanburg?

AUGUST 26, 2010 6:24 a.m. Comments (0)

Parking scofflaws in the city of Spartanburg could be facing stiffer fines and the prospects their car will be immobilized by a boot device attached to a wheel.

City Council is expected to take up the proposal next month. Continue reading...

The week in pictures

August 22 - September 2

AUGUST 27, 2010 7:21 a.m. Comments (0)

In this week's gallery:

At work and at play in Greenville and Spartanburg

The Cultural Arts Foundation of Fountain Inn's first foundation dinner Continue reading...

Denny's income drops

AUGUST 27, 2010 7:08 a.m. Comments (0)

Spartanburg-based Denny’s Corp. net income fell 42 percent in the second quarter, the company reported. Continue reading...

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